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Meaning of "afterings" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AFTERINGS

afterings  [ˈɑːftərɪŋz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AFTERINGS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Afterings is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AFTERINGS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of afterings in the English dictionary

The definition of afterings in the dictionary is the last of the milk drawn from a cow in milking. The afterings are the richest milk.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AFTERINGS


bearings
ˈbɛərɪŋz
buccaneerings
ˌbʌkəˈnɪərɪŋz
cosherings
ˈkɒʃərɪŋz
hammerings
ˈhæmərɪŋz
heartstrings
ˈhɑːtˌstrɪŋz
moorings
ˈmʊərɪŋz
murmurings
ˈmɜːmərɪŋz
mutterings
ˈmʌtərɪŋz
offscourings
ˈɒfˌskaʊərɪŋz
scourings
ˈskaʊərɪŋz
solderings
ˈsəʊldərɪŋz
Springs
sprɪŋz
strings
strɪŋz
vaporings
ˈveɪpərɪŋz
wanderings
ˈwɒndərɪŋz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AFTERINGS

afterdeck
aftereffect
aftereye
aftergame
afterglow
aftergrass
aftergrowth
afterguard
afterheat
afterimage
afterlife
aftermarket
aftermath
aftermost
afternoon
afternoon performance
afternoon session
afternoon tea
afternoons
afterpain

WORDS THAT END LIKE AFTERINGS

Alice Springs
Colorado Springs
feelings
findings
idiot strings
king of the herrings
leading strings
Newton´s rings
Palm Springs
pull strings
pull the strings
purse strings
rankings
ratings
savings
the strings
things
tied to someone´s apron strings
wings
Writings

Synonyms and antonyms of afterings in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «afterings» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AFTERINGS

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The translations of afterings from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «afterings» in English.

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afterings
1,325 millions of speakers

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afterings
570 millions of speakers

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afterings
510 millions of speakers

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afterings
380 millions of speakers
ar

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afterings
280 millions of speakers

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afterings
278 millions of speakers

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afterings
270 millions of speakers

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afterings
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afterings
220 millions of speakers

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Selepas itu
190 millions of speakers

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afterings
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afterings
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afterings
85 millions of speakers

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Sawise
85 millions of speakers
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afterings
80 millions of speakers

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afterings
75 millions of speakers

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नंतरचे
75 millions of speakers

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afterings
70 millions of speakers

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afterings
65 millions of speakers

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afterings
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

afterings
40 millions of speakers

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afterings
30 millions of speakers
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afterings
15 millions of speakers
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afterings
14 millions of speakers
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afterings
10 millions of speakers
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afterings
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of afterings

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AFTERINGS»

The term «afterings» is used very little and occupies the 154.018 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AFTERINGS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «afterings» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «afterings» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about afterings

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AFTERINGS»

Discover the use of afterings in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to afterings and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The English dialect dictionary
Dmf. [Jane] furnishes butter and afterings [jibbings) for tea, FRCILTDE Thomas Carlyle (133:1) ll. :1. “[115. 11. were only yesterday as she aimed her leg right at t' pail wi' t'afterings in; she knowed it were alterings as well as any Christian, ...
J. Wright, 2004
2
American Farmers' Magazine
that last drawn ; the latter is technically, in Lancashire, called the afterings, and in many towns is generally sold as cream. It seemed also an object of interest to ascertain the comparative quantity of butyraceous matter yielded by the first and ...
3
Notes and Queries
Afterings": "Beestlings" (6"1 S. v. 439). — Mr. Froude should have asked a dairy- maid. Townspeople do not always know that in daily milkiDg the first milk drawn from the cow is the poorest, that it improves as the process goes on, and that the  ...
William White, 1882
4
Agricultural Surveys: Lancaster (1795)
This week he took only one pint of drippings, or afterings, from each cow, each meal ; which, together with the cream of tiie former or fore-milk, produced 25J lb. of butter. The amount of this week's sales of sweet and churned milk and butter, ...
Great Britain. Board of Agriculture, 1795
5
The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil
No: 3 was the last pint of the milking, or afterings. As in previous experiments, scalding the milk was found to favour the more perfect separation of the butter, after the three portions were allowed to remain twenty four hours in the milk- house.
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American Quarterly Journal of Agriculture & Science
The difference between the richness of the first milk and the afterings, in a cow yielding about fifteen pints of milk at each milking, is thus as 1 : 110. When a cow has calved less recently, the difference between the first milk and afterings, ...
Ebenezer Emmons, 1845
7
Transactions: Of the Highland and Agricultural Society of ...
3 was the last pint of the milking, or afterings. As in previous experiments, scalding the milk was found to favour the more perfect separation of the butter, after the three portions were allowed to remain twenty-four hours in the milk- house.
Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, 1845
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Transactions
3 was the last pint of the milking, or afterings. As in previous experiments, scalding the milk was found to favour the more perfect separation of the butter, after the three portions were allowed to remain twenty-four hours in the milk- house.
Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1845
9
A Companion to the Victorian Novel
Most of these afterings do not qualify as postmodern interventions; the impulse behind all of them is a nostalgic one. The desire to after these texts is a desire to prolong the stories either by providing sequels or by projecting them into different  ...
Patrick Brantlinger, William Thesing, 2008
10
General view of the agriculture of the county of Lancaster ...
This week he took only one pint of drippings, or afterings, from each cow, each meal; which, together with the cream of the former or fore milk, produced 25J Ib. of butter. The amount of this week's sales of sweet and churned milk and butter, ...
Great Britain. Board of Agriculture, John Holt, 1794

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AFTERINGS»

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Camelot's other side
... Carpio- Morales restore faith in degraded institutions. But from the other side of “Camelot,” alas, there are no complete “happily ever-afterings ... «Sun.Star, May 14»

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